I agree that HIV providers should not provide without informing clients of their condition, however the reality is that many providers and clients have HIV and do not inform anyone, sad but true. I know and have known of a number of HIV providers who fear they will lose their client base if they inform. Ethics is not a big thing when money is involved. When the Aids epidemic started years back, providers with HIV were outed in the news and sentenced to jail time, we don't hear that any more, probably due to anti-discrimination laws that followed and the sheer numbers involved, as well as the hyper privacy situation in place for testing.

Now here is the point, taking away a persons drivers license has nothing or very little to do with limiting their actions. Providers do not work out of mobile homes so it does not effect their work nor slow their exposing of others. As long as there is public transport and third party drivers, people will get to work. I suppose for streetwalkers this is a minor problem, but for escorts who work out of home and hotel, it really does little to slow them down. It does however make it harder for them to get meds and attend medical care. A forced training session that explained why they should not be putting others to risk would me more to the point, many providers in L.A. lockup years back when there was enough room in the jails to allow for short stays for victimless crimes, received their first training on proper techniques to avoid infection and to avoid infecting other. Of course today you can kill a pop star and pretty much avoid a prison term, progress? What we need is some form of legalization or decriminalization of prostitution that would allow for some medical testing and would require a sex worker to provide a clean medical card on request for everyone's safety. This had been in effect in France for many years but abolished in 1960.

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